Installing MatLab on Snow Leopard
Getting myself up to speed on MatLab for this fall’s classes, the activation fails on Snow Leopard with some ugly error message. Fix is easy — in the Java Preferences app on your system, make 32-bit Java the default. All is well after that.
Details on the matlab support site

















October 27th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
You just made my day! i have been booting up windows via parallels to run matlab cuz of that stupid error.
thanks a bunch!
October 28th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
glad to help. see my other post on path length restrictions, that will nail you on osx as well. good luck!
November 15th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
I have been trying to get this working for a while. Thanks a bunch!